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Movies that feel like28 Days Later (2002)

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

If you loved 28 Days Later, the closest films we have are The Mist (2007), World War Z (2013) and A Quiet Place Part II (2021). All three share 28 Days Later's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Companion (2025).

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Danny Boyledreadunsettlingtensecerebralbleak
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: 28 Weeks Later (2007) · 28 Years Later (2025)

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The Mist
2007 · dir. Frank Darabont
🍅 74%★ 7.1horror · science fiction · thrillerPrime Video

The monsters outside matter less than the people inside

The difference: Creature-feature horrors — the threat is fantastical, not viral

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

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World War Z
2013 · dir. Marc Forster
🍅 67%★ 7action · horror · science fictionParamount+Peacock

Infection as a fast-moving force of nature swallowing cities

The difference: PG-13 blockbuster scale — momentum without the raw despair

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

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A Quiet Place Part II
2021 · dir. John Krasinski
🍅 91%★ 7.2science fiction · thriller · horrorNetflixParamount+

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

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Overlord
2018 · dir. Julius Avery
🍅 82%★ 6.6horror · war · science fictionParamount+

Cerebral and bleak in the same breath

The difference: Trades the tension of 28 Days Later for an angle of its own

On the eve of D-Day, a team of American paratroopers crash behind enemy lines and come face-to-face with a Nazi threat unlike any the world has ever seen.

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A Quiet Place: Day One
2024 · dir. Michael Sarnoski
🍅 86%★ 6.2horror · science fiction · thrillerNetflixPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: survival horror

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sam fights to survive with her cat.

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Bird Box
2018 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 64%★ 6.6horror · thriller · dramaNetflix

An apocalypse survived by rules that can never be broken

The difference: A concept movie — the threat stays vague to a fault

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

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The Purge
2013 · dir. James DeMonaco
🍅 41%★ 5.8science fiction · horror · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

Civilization's veneer stripped off overnight

The difference: Blunt home-invasion premise — an idea bigger than its film

Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
★ 5.5horror · thriller

An outbreak closing around ordinary people in real time

The difference: A small Danish quarantine drama — familiar beats, less fury

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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Alien Resurrection
1997 · dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
🍅 55%★ 6.2science fiction · horror · action

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.

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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
2021 · dir. Johannes Roberts
🍅 30%★ 5.2action · horror · science fictionHuluStarz

A corporate-made outbreak devouring the town that hosted it

The difference: Video game fan service — jump scares over social decay

Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.

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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
2016 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 39%★ 5.5action · horror · science fictionNetflixHulu

The same preoccupation in both: zombie

The difference: Leans harder into action than 28 Days Later does

Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

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Companion
2025 · dir. Drew Hancock
🍅 93%★ 6.9horror · science fiction · thrillerMax

Tense thriller in both cases

During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.

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